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I had a mystery bird at my feeder, and it turned out to be a song sparrow. Identifying it online was a bit of a challenge, because the population of song sparrows up here tend to much darker than usual. They’re really striking little things.
I’m already waiting for spring, so my little sparrow got a pomegranate branch to sit on. We’ve had our snow now, and I’m ready for all the plants to wake up again.
A song sparrow sitting on a blooming pomegranate branch drawn in colored pencil
My office window looks right out on the tree that holds our bird feeder, so when I’m working I also get to watch the little house finches and juncos squabble and flit around. They’re all really cute, but these jays are probably my favorite birds that visit the yard. They’re all attitude and their little crests are just excellent. Plus, they sound like angry robots when they yell, which is very endearing.
A pen and ink drawing of a steller’s jay sitting on a thin pine branch
These dark-eyed junco birds spend a lot of time draining the bird feeder outside my office. They’re pretty cute little things about the size of a sparrow, and I decided to draw one recently.
A pen and ink drawing of a dark-eyed junco bird perching on a branch
Jasmine Collins 